Sentence example with the word 'headman'

headman

alderman, burgomaster, city father, councillor, floorman, honcho, maire, overman, selectman, supervisor

Definition n. an executioner who beheads the condemned person

Last update: September 11, 2015


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The city is divided into fourteen quarters, each presided over by a headman, and inhabited by separate sections of the community.   [Please select]

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The headman who had accepted the test rose first.   [Please select]

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The headman disappeared behind the deer-skin curtain.   [Please select]

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The headman proclaimed that his will coincided with the will of the native teacher.   [Please select]

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The church is cheap and big, and the headman and native teacher are both unhealthily contented.   [Please select]

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But none dare to come in after the Psammead's sudden fierce biting of the headman.   [Please select]

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"There is no quarrel between us now," the headman of the hamlet said.   [Please select]

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"They both speak the language well," the headman said, "I will tell them what you want."   [Please select]

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The headman urged upon him the danger that lay in loitering.   [Please select]

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In the village lived a man who wished to be headman.   [Please select]

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The old commander-in-chief who had been willingly recognised as "headman" or "King" because he knew how to lead his men to victory, had disappeared from the scene.   [Please select]

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